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...relatively clear, the plan for halting it isn't. NATO's corridors, so recently filled with debates about whether to go into Kosovo, now echo with talk about how to get out. "Nobody has a clear crystal ball on this," admits an alliance official. The cautious compromise of Rambouillet seems a naive pipe dream in a land where compromise has been banished. Most Kosovar Albanians--to say nothing of the Kosovo Liberation Army--would never accept Belgrade rule. The White House has yet to endorse independence for Kosovo, but once Albanian Kosovars are returned, vows a senior aide, "they...
...bombings became inevitable when Milosevic refused to accept the Rambouillet Agreement's provision for NATO peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. Although the alliance remains committed to the Rambouillet principles, the agreement itself, as Madeleine Albright put it, "has been overtaken by events." Neither the Serbs nor the Kosovar Albanians are now likely to accept an autonomous Kosovo within Serbia under the protection of NATO peacekeepers...
...settlement: An end to the Serb offensive in Kosovo A withdrawal of Serb military, paramilitary and police units from the region The safe return of the refugees The presence of an international protection force to guarantee their security Autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia, along the lines envisaged at Rambouillet...
...Serb offer contained a concession -- the idea that the army protecting returning refugees would be an "international" rather than a NATO force. This allowed for Russian involvement, and opened up the issue of the composition of the Kosovo peacekeeping force -- which was not on the table at Rambouillet -- for negotiation...
TIME once named the computer as the Machine of the Year [Jan. 3, 1983]. Why not a Machine of the Century? The automobile or the airplane would qualify, having revolutionized transportation over the past 100 years. Karl Lintner Rambouillet, France...